OK, I need to get my hands on this. <3

Research takes time and will never simultaneously test the commercial models as they come out. I suspect they’ll do just as poorly. I’ve been tracking these studies for a decade and they’ve hardly improved

Our university is in the process of allowing AI use in assessment, a supposedly pragmatic response to its ubiquity. This means I can't ban it on my comics course. This might bolster students' desire to avoid it.

I messed around with this in a far less scientific fashion and: yeah.

Thanks a lot!

I forgot the most important: good luck to @cogirmak.bsky.social !

This is really interesting and I will definitively have a look! A long time ago, when I was a student, I did my project on this topic for a Semiotics module, at a much smaller scale. Funnily enough, it was about compiling and writing about all the different types of movements in the Tintin books.

She additionally lead the annotation of a 300+ comics from around the world, and @cogirmak.bsky.social's analysis of them uncovered various abstract patterns involved in how motion events are encoded in different motion cues www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

She also examined comics directly for how they use motion cues. @cogirmak.bsky.social first used a corpus of 85 comics and showed that the depiction of motion events varies based on the structures of the languages spoken by those authors www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

In experiments that compared how people perceive the speed implied by these different motion cues, @cogirmak.bsky.social found that background lines and suppletion lines seem faster than normal motion lines, which mostly indicate direction, not speed journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

In a review paper for Cognitive Science, @cogirmak.bsky.social showed that studies overall suggest that motion lines are not based on perception or metaphors, but are encoded as part of a visual lexicon that requires exposure and familiarity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In experiments that compared how people perceive the speed implied by these different motion cues, @cogirmak.bsky.social found that background lines and suppletion lines seem faster than normal motion lines, which mostly indicate direction, not speed journalofcognition.org/articles/10....